Stefano Dubay

Work History

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  Concept Artist

  Double Negative

  September 2017 - Present

  London, United Kingdom
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  Modeler

  Double Negative

  January 2017 - September 2017

  London, United Kingdom
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  Character Modeler

  Walt Disney Animation Studios

  June 2011 - April 2014

  Burbank, CA

  Modeling characters and assets for feature animations.
  I also collaborated with other departments to create new tools to integrate modeling better with the other departments and automating redundant modeling tasks. I also developed the new generic topology to be used in all the human characters in the upcoming feature Big Hero 6. There I combined the standard radial face topology layout with the grid layout used by Pixar to provide enhanced deformability for facial expressions.
  
  Credits
  
  Wreck it Ralph (2012)
  Modeled several of the characters. Notably the “Zombie” character, the “Neff” character from Altered Beasts (the pink Rhyno also featured in the posters distributed worldwide), two of the Space Marines (Heads only, armor had been adapted across characters), a few of the realistic humans that inhabited the arcade and all the candy-made variants of the Cybugs towards the end of the movie. I sculpted facial expressions for the Zombie character that had a vast expression range that couldn’t be covered by rig alone. I also helped as support staff for matte painting and in creating other assets.
  
  Frozen (2013)
  
  Modeled Characters and Assets. I began making the Hans’s sleigh and then moved to characters, I created several secondary and tertiary characters and notably the big Ice Monster nicknamed
  “Marshmallow” that is also featured in the cameo at the end of the movie.
  
  Big Hero 6 (2014)
  
  Modeled and collaborated in the visual development of two of the six hero characters in the movie. Baymax in it's armored variant and Wasabi.
  Besides these I also created when in its deflated form and several props and items.
  As mentioned above I created the generic topology that had been used for all the characters, from crowds to hero characters. Created facial expressions for Wasabi. Modeled also many other secondary characters, variants and props most notably the small trolley box where the Baymax's inflatable version resides.

  
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  Character Modeler

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 2010 - June 2011

  Arthus's Christmas
  Character Modeler
  Character modeler: modeled one of the protagonists and several hero and sub-hero characters for
  "Arthur Christmas"a 3D animation feature by Aardman in collaboration with Sony Pictures Imageworks.
  
  Environment Modeler: Always for Arthur Christmas I made a broad variety of environments from mechanical docking bays to African desert terrains, from the organic forms of underwater glaciers to chiseled ice caves.

  

• Resident Staff Modeler

  Psyop - Massmarket

  January 2009 - May 2010

  Head of Modeling - Asset Creation: Props, Vehicles and Characters for highend 3D visual effects on commercials for clients such as
  Coke, Skype, Nissan, Axe and Peugeot.
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  Texture artist

  Rhythm & Hues Studios

  April 2008 - December 2008

  3D modeling, UV Mapping, Texturing, Digital Maquette sculpts, High Frequency detail sculpt

• 3D Modeler

  Gentle Giant Digital

  September 2006 - May 2008

  respondible of lores - highres modeling, realtime mash making, scandata acquisition, scandata processing, highres scandata resurface. softwares used: Maya, Zbrush, Paraform, GSI Studio, Freeform, Rapidform and several other ones for specific tasks.
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  Intern

  Gentle Giant Studios

  September 2006 - September 2007

  Responsibilities:
  3D Scan equipment setup, 3D scanning data acquisition, Data processing, high resolution
  organized mesh generation, UV mapping and Texturing. Clients: movie industry, video game
  production houses and rapid prototyping / commercial for product makers.
  Digital sculpting on high resolution meshes both on organics and hard surfaces (accessory
  detailing) for movies and video games .
  optimized low resolution ingame meshes creation with normal mapping from the over mentioned
  high resolution models.

• student

  gnomon school

  2005 - 2007